Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-11
We thought how they who with smiles did greet
Industrial Breyities.


experiment of growing tobacco in Great
Britain has not had q fair trial this year.
The crop has been grown, or attempted
to be grown as far north as Elgin, as far
south as Cornwall, at Boston in the east,
and at Cardiff III the west. Forty-fve
growers made the statutory declaration
of their intention to grow tobacco re-
quired by the inland revenue department
about twenty acres being the total area
of the plots, as compared with five acres
last year. The season has been far more
favorable to the maturing of the crop
than can be expected generally, so that
if tobacco of good quality can be produc-
ed in this country, it should beaforthcom-
ing when the present growth has been
cured. Last years experiments can not
be said to kave been brilliantly success
full. According to the report of the COM
missioners of inland revenue tobacco
wasgrown by twenty four persons in four
teen counties, ana attained maturity in
twenty instances. In only six cases, how
ever, was the produce good enough for
duty to be paid on it that of the other
fourteen growers being destroyed.
NJ. Peligot an eminent French chemist
has made discovery which will be very
comforting to wine merchants all over
the world. When you buy choice wine at
an alarming number of shillings per
dozen, and afterwards find that you have
got a sour, highly branded concoction, it
does not at all follow it seems, that tire
wine merchant is dishonest. 1t is all the
fault of the bottles. Most French bottles
says NJ. Peligot are we'll made and worthy
of receiving good wine; but France is
inundated with bottles of foreign manu-
facture, whose name is abomination. In
the good old days, when soda and potash
formed the basis of bOttle-giass, wine
improved by keeping; but now that glass
like everything else, is adulterated, the
best vintages are liable 10 be spoiled
Materials that are largely ferruginous
are constantly employed in the manufac-
ture of glass for bottles; and upon these
constituents the acids in the wine act
very powerfully with the result that the
liquid becomes impregnated with solu
ton of magnosia or what not
An English paper says: Fifeshire far
mers who have tried flax growing during
the last two seasons have obtained ex-
cellent crops, one of them having estima-
ted the product this year at over 213 tons
of straw and IA bushels of seed. The
Sui dLu C4IIlulC Va tliC SOUh'J cRPNoA w
suit fax remarkably well, the quality be-
ing geDearlly extra fine. If satisfactory
prices for the straw or fiber are obtained,
as therei is reason to believe Will be the
case. the area under fax il Scotland will
probably be considerably increased next
year. The principal question appears
to be whether growers should sell the
straw in its raw state, or whether they
should steep and scut2h it, selling the
fiber.
An advocate of mutton sheep says that
if the farmers Of America could handle
on an average fifty ewes year, and be
sure to Lave them only of the mutton
breeds, they would raise more good meat
of q paying quality to the acre than
is now done, and at the same time pro
duce q greater variety OF desirable woods.
As it is, he thinks they are carrying too
many eggs in one basket, supplying lit
tie, if any, desirable meat, and vastly too
much OF one variety of wool, the result
of which is wOol-raising is Improbable
to the average farmer. There is an ex-
cellent prospect for the men who will con-
fine their efforts to snail f0cks and make
the most of them.
The English hop harvest has been a
much shorter one than last year. The
following is believed to be correct esti-
mate of the yield in the several districts:
East Kent, about 1900 acres at Z humid
dwight per acre; MidKent, about 20,-
900 acres at hundred-weight; Weald of
Kent, about 10000 acres at hundred
weight; Sussex, 5000 acres at 5 hundred
weight; Farnham, 1000 acres at Z humid
red weight; County Farnham, 5000 acres
at hundred-weight, Worcester, 5000
acres ct 5 hundred weight. The largest
individual growths in Kent are put at 16
hundred-weight ton per acre, and the
smallest ct hundred-weight.
1t is stated that C. J. Jones, of Garden
City, Kan, has been hunting over eastern
New Mexico and western Texas for buffa-
loes, and has succeeded in capturing
thirty calves and one COW. These will be
placed with the rest of his herd, making
forty in ALL and the largest now in the
United States. They will be run on Mr..
Jones' ranch near Garden City. Mr..
Jones believes that by crossing the
buffalo with certain breeds of cattle, a
new and more hardy variety of stock will
be the result. His efforts in this direc-
ton will be watched with interest by
stockmen from all sides.